He meditated, and then again listened, and looked.

Then he took Thomas aside, and pinning him, as it were, to the wall with his keen gaze, he asked in doubt and fear, but with a certain confused hopefulness: "Thomas! But what if He is right?
What if He be founded upon a rock, and we upon sand?
What then ?" "Of whom are you speaking ?" "How, then, would it be with Judas Iscariot?
Then I should be obliged to strangle Him in order to do right.

Who is deceiving Judas?
You or he himself?
Who is deceiving Judas?
Who ?" "I don't understand you, Judas.

You speak very unintelligently.

'Who is deceiving Jesus ?' 'Who is right ?'" And Judas nodded his head and repeated like an echo: "Who is deceiving Judas?
Who ?" And the next day, in the way in which Judas raised his hand with thumb bent back,[1] and by the way in which he looked at Thomas, the same strange question was implied: "Who is deceiving Judas?
Who is right ?" [1] Does our author refer to the Roman sign of disapprobation, vertere, or convertere, pollicem ?--Tr.
And still more surprised, and even alarmed, was Thomas, when suddenly in the night he heard the loud, apparently glad voice of Judas: "Then Judas Iscariot will be no more.